UNIPRESS software warning
Ira Blumberg
but there are some major deficiencies. None of the tools will accept
wild card file specifiers or path names in DOS 2.0. This is not
important for some of the tools like diff, but it makes things like grep
useless. I called the company and they didn't have any idea how to go
about adding wild card or path support to their product. Thus, if you
have a UNIX system with source code and a method to download files, you
can compile the UNIX tools on the PC for yourself and get the same
product. Overall, I am not impressed with the effort the company has
put into their tools.
As always, these are my private views and have nothing to do with my
employer.
and...@orca.uucp
"... if you have a UNIX system with source code and a method to
download files, you can compile the UNIX tools on the PC for
yourself ..."
Lest any readers of this group be unfamiliar with software licenses,
let me warn you NOT TO TRY THIS. It is a major infraction of a Unix
source license to copy Unix-provided code to an unlicensed machine.
Since it costs at least $20,000 to get a source license, very few
people may legally run UNIX code on their PCs.
Violation of the license can get your company and yourself tied in
legal knots for years. Just remember that AT&T has a small city of
lawyers just waiting for cases like this.
-- Andrew Klossner (decvax!tektronix!orca!andrew) [UUCP]
(orca!andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]
ron%b...@sri-unix.uucp
However, don't let this prevent you from writing your own tools that
use the UNIX libraries. Bell has decided that it was in their best
interest to allow binary copies of the libraries to be imbedded in
programs running on nonlicensed CPUs.
-Ron
The Master of Sinanju
The idea of porting UNIX utilities directly to the PC is, in
addition to being illegal, very impractical, as the MS-DOS shell
does not expand meta-characters. This requires you to add code
to do this to EACH AND EVERY thing you bring over, unless you want
to hack on COMMAND.COM (not a pretty thing).
--
Brian A. Ehrmantraut
Ad Maioram Gloriam Hasturi!
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